This section is from the book "Cassell's Cyclopaedia Of Mechanics", by Paul N. Hasluck. Also available from Amazon: Cassell's Cyclopaedia Of Mechanics.
For a paint for table oilcloths, try white lead or zinc white ground in oil, with 1 oz. of patent driers to the pound, and enough boiled linseed oil to make it flow. This paint should be applied in a warm room and dried rapidly while hung in a room heated by flues running along the floor. The cloth should previously be coated either with a thick boiled starch or with glue size.
 
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